Cost+Plus is a professional firm dedicated to providing project and cost management services of the highest quality for all types of performing arts and museum projects worldwide.
Latest News
Cost+Plus are Hiring!
Located in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, FL on Central Avenue, Cost+Plus is actively recruiting an experienced Estimator/Cost Consultant to join our team. The firm handles a diverse array of cultural projects nationwide, with budgets ranging from $5 million to $500 million. We are seeking someone at the senior level, ideally with at least ten years of relevant experience. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply confidentially by emailing mark@cost-plus-inc.com.
July 2025
Interested in working for Cost+Plus on amazing Projects? Drop us a line today!
July 2025
We’re proud to be working with Dr Phillips Center for Performing Arts in Orlando!
July 2025
Our work at Denver Center for the Performing Arts continues!
July 2025
We’re delighted to be working on several confidential Performing Arts feasibility/masterplan studies!
July 2025
Our Nashville School of the Arts project moves into Schematic Design!
July 2025
The transformative renovation to Kulas Concert Hall at Cleveland Institute of Music excitingly close to completion!
July 2025
Renovations and Expansion to Dallas Museum of Art moving along in Schematic Design with Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and Perkins&Will.
July 2025
Cost Consultant Services continue on the Omaha Children’s Museum with Snohetta.
July 2025
Cost+Plus launch new website, new logo, and new branding! Great work by Amy Mc Design!
Featured projects
Cost+Plus provides a wide range of professional, and dedicated, project and cost management services for cultural facilities throughout North America and worldwide.
Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center @ World Trade Center
New York, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Medora, North Dakota
Baker Museum of Art, Artis—Naples
Naples, Florida
American Repertory Theater, David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Creativity & Performance
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Project: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Architects: Snøhetta/JLG Architects
For any new, or renovated, cultural project to be a quality, schedule and budget success, it will require cost management with strong attributes including leadership, in-depth experience, project and cost management understanding, and attention to the highest quality of detail and accuracy.
Project: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Architects: Snøhetta/JLG Architects
Cost+Plus provides realistic and reliable budget projections exclusively for cultural projects comprising of performing arts, museum, and attraction facilities.
We are fortunate to have worked with architectural and engineering teams of the highest quality on our cultural projects and know what to expect, and what to allow for, when carefully preparing our estimates and budget projections.
Budget projections can be provided at different stages of the project:
The outset of the project:
We are proven experts at providing realistic and reliable cost projections for feasibility studies, masterplans, and all programmatic studies for performing arts and museum projects. It’s here we provide the value of sensibly getting to the alignment of budget, scope, quality, and associated timelines!
During the actual design stages:
Our approach and methodology for providing comprehensive cost management services during the concept, schematic, design development, and construction documents phases is unsurpassed and our estimates and cost reports are industry leading.
Bid and construction stage:
Comparison of bids through our in-depth data analysis process reveals strategies for maintaining budgets going into construction. During construction we are one of the few firms committed to professional, meticulous, management of change order reviews and oversight of monthly Pay Applications from the Construction Management firm.
Why choose us?
Unique Approach
Unique blend of cost and project management services.
Cultural Facilities
Devoted to cultural facilities for decades.
The Details
Attention to detail and ethics of the highest order.
Our Record
Excellent record of realistic and reliable cost projections.
What our clients say
Our testimonials demonstrate meeting our firm’s mission – to provide professional services of the highest quality and to the complete satisfaction of all our clients.
“Our alliance with Cost+Plus has been critical to our planning in, and through, a complex set of projects in a decades old landmark facility.”
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Clay L. Courter
Vice President, Facilities and Event Services, Denver Center for the Performing Arts
“Cost+Plus is our go to partner for accurate cost estimating for large scale, permanent consumer experiences.”
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Haven Riviere
V.P. Marketing Operations, The Coca-Cola Company
“There is no question in my mind that Joe Perryman is the best capital cost estimator in the cultural field. Not only does he provide his service at a reasonable cost, his commitment to accurate cost estimates and to making clear how his estimates were derived are exemplary.”
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Ted Silberberg
Senior Principal, Market and Financial Planning Lord Cultural Resources
“The Cost+Plus approach is an ability to take on a client’s project and goals empathetically, very much sharing the owner’s ambitions, business objectives, and the creation of a path to success for the project.”
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Max Leventhal
Owner’s Representative, Woodruff Arts Center
“We’ve found that working with Cost+Plus helps us and our clients to feel not only informed, but empowered to make better decisions.”
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Chris Wineman
Principal, Semple Brown Architects
“Cost+Plus are wonderful collaborators, providing critical input throughout the design process. When Cost+Plus are involved, we have full confidence in the outcome.”
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Victor F. “Trey” Trahan, III, FAIA
Founder/CEO, Trahan Architects
Contact us
Contact us today to discuss your project’s requirements.